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Baltimore God bless America Except Baltimore They got rats there No MAGA hats there I don't go there Because they are poor Stephen Colbert, on Trump's attacks on Baltimore © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bank regulators When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial? Elizabeth Warren to bank regulators, at her 1st Banking Committee hearing (2013) © 2019 Kwiple.com
Crime If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. Robert Mueller © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democracy  When corporations get so big that they can start to squeeze the government, then democracy no longer works. Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Facts When the facts change,  I change my mind. What do you do, sir? John Maynard Keynes © 2019 Kwiple.com
Food Seals Taste Like Chicken Slogan on T-shirt for shark tourists © 2019 Kwiple.com
Healthcare It was in his self-neglect, rather than his hostility, that my father found common cause with the tens of millions of American patients who collectively hobble our health-care system. … Could the problem with with the American health-care system lie not only with the American system but with American patients? David Freedman, The Atlantic, July 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Impeachment If he were anyone other than the president of the United States, he would be in handcuffs and indicted. Elizabeth Warren, May, 2019, after reading the Mueller report © 2019 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Count votes in Congress by: 1. Calculating a Member's Proportional Vote (MPV) for each member, as follows: MPV = SPNP / NLRS where: SPNP = State's Percentage of the National Population NLRS = Number of Legislators Representing the State (in that legislature) 2. Totaling “yes” MPVs and “no” MPVs 3. Passing if total MPV is more than 50 OTHERWISE Abolish the Senate © 2019 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Enhance America's infrastructure (1) without privatizing it (2) without giving tax breaks and windfall profits to private investors (3) without issuing government bonds, which increases government debt and income inequality resulting from paying interest to bondholders by (1) contracting to build or improve assets of long-lasting public value, like roads, schools, parks, housing (2) printing money and paying for work as it's done © 2017 Kwiple.com
Liars say Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. Donald Trump, when signing a law extending healthcare for real first responders © 2019 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Labelling data used to train machine learning algorithms © 2019 Kwiple.com
Objectivity The goal of objectivity is not to give equal time between truth and falsehood – it is to facilitate the truth. Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth © 2019 Kwiple.com
Post-2018 Senate shituation 15 states (Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2018 population: 40,056,961 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,335,232 people — 1 state (California) 2018 population: 39,776,830 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,888,415 people 19,888,415 / 1,335,232 = 16, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth 16 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 6% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2018 population = 573,720, therefore: 1 Senator per 286,860 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 69 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.4% of a Wyomian's © 2016 Kwiple.com
Presidential debates If we want to more realistically show what a candidate might be like as president, there should be ten people on the stage, but only two candidates. And each candidate should have five advisors on all the different policy arenas sitting right behind them … And these advisors should be able to pass notes to the candidate … And, we should give the candidates the questions in ad- vance so that we can get their best, most thoughtful answers – answers that they arrive at with the help of their advisors, exactly the way the would responsibly do their job. Lawrence O'Donnell, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, August 1, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidential debates We're going to continue to have TV debates that serve the purposes of TV, especially commercial TV, rather than the interests of the voters. … The debates are not designed for you. The debates are not designed to enlighten us about who can do the job of the presidency because the debates have absolutely nothing to do with the job of President of the United States. Lawrence O'Donnell, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, August 1, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Racism You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger” – that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, “forced busing,” “states' rights,” and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a by- product of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. … “We want to cut this” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” Lee Atwater, 1981 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot “Moscow Mitch” Mitch McConnell portrayed by Joe Scarborough © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot This president, like all grotesque things, is hard to look away from. [but it's important to try] Because if it's all about him, it's not about you. Donald Trump portrayed by Pete Buttigieg © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr Trump is everywhere at all times. If you measure a presidency by media saturation, Mr Trump is already on his fourth term. Donald Trump portrayed by Edward Luce in Financial Times, July 25, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Socio-economic mobility  [I]n countries without elite universities, it's rare for one class to capture the national heights: careers are decided more in adulthood, by which time people's trajectories depend slightly more on their achievements than on their parents. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, August 1, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
State of the union Once again wealthy Americans and business interests have a great deal of political power. Once again the Senate is filled with multimillionaires; the Supreme Court is overturning popular legislation; and both major parties appear to be swayed by the wishes of the business and financial communities. Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America? © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I'm here today because I think he's the greatest president there ever was in this country. Attendee at Trump's 2020 campaign kickoff rally quoted by The Atlantic, June 19, 2019  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Walls When you come upon a wall, throw your hat over it, and then go get your hat. Irish proverb © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I have an Article II where I have the right to do whatever I want as president. But I don't even talk about that. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say I have the absolute right to PARDON myself Donald Trump, 5:35 AM – 4 Jun 2018 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Wealth inequality Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit. Rutger Bregman, at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 2019, on the one measure guaranteed to mitigate wealth inequality © 2019 Kwiple.com